[정유리] PM remarks at the Organised Immigration Summit in central London

[정유리]

Title: PM remarks at the Organised Immigration Summit in central London

Speaker: Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Date: 31 March 2025

Word count: 348

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-remarks-at-the-organised-immigration-summit-in-central-london-31-march-2025?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Glossary

vile: 비도덕적인, 극도로 나쁜

pit A against B: A와 B가 서로 싸우게 만들다

Member of Parliament: 국회의원

Calais: 칼레(프랑스의 항구 도시)

huddle together: 꼭 붙어있다

get to grips with: ..을 이해하고 대처하다

Script

Illegal migration is a massive driver of global insecurity. It undermines our ability to control who comes here. And that makes people angry. It makes me angry, frankly because it is unfair on ordinary working people who pay the price, from the cost of hotels to our public services struggling under the strain. And it’s unfair on the illegal migrants themselves. Because these are vulnerable people being ruthlessly exploited by vile gangs.

So look, we must each take decisive action in our own countries to deal with this. Nobody can doubt that the people we serve want this issue sorted. But the truth is - we can only smash these gangs, once and for all if we work together. Because this evil trade, it exploits the cracks between our institutions. Pits nations against one another. Profits from our inability at the political level to come together. And that’s why from the moment I took office we said the UK would convene this Summit.

And I’m delighted today to be joined by all of you. Representatives from more than 40 countries across the world, building a truly international effort to defeat organised immigration crime.

And let me tell you why. Let me take you back to a visit I made as a relatively new Member of Parliament in 2016 to the camp on the outskirts of Calais. I can still picture it now. The muddy ground, sodden with rain and human waste. Children as young as five and seven, the same age as my children were then huddling together in freezing temperatures with almost nothing to keep them warm.

Now, of course, that infamous camp has long since gone. But the evil of the people smuggling businesses that put people there, that remains. The gangs remain. That exploitation of desperation, misery and false hope – that all remains.

There’s nothing progressive or compassionate about turning a blind eye to this. Nothing progressive or compassionate about continuing that false hope which attracts people to make those journeys. No – we have got to get to grips with it once and for all.